Norton Internet Security / Norton AntiVirus

[Dieselman743]

There is no real place to post this so I guess I will put it here. It does have to with security has Firefox stands out. Watch this video from CNET.

 http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-10079338-12.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody

[Tech0utsider]

Since many people like to use Firefox, and they are pushing for adopters, will it turn Firefox into a easy target for browser exploits?

Take Windows for example. Majority of people use Windows. Microsoft argues that Windows is considered "unsecure" because it is a huge target. 

However, a counterargument would be that Firefox is open-source and quickly can patch up vulnerabilites, unlike Microsoft, big, bulky, and buggy. 

[Stu]

Interesting post, thanx

[Dieselman743]

If you use Ad Blocker Plus and No Script you are pretty much well covered. IE never had add ons like the ones in Firefox and still never does. Even if you add IE7pro to IE it still doesn't provide the overall protection that Firefox can. XP Antivirus 2008,2009 is an extremely bad malware infection. I ran IE7 on my laptop under VMware with no security running. After sometimes surfing around I got the pop up that would start the XP Antivirus infection. I got rid of it using some tools then did the same routine using Firefox. Firefox was able  to prevent the XP Antivirus itself by simply scripting.

Message Edited by Dieselman743 on 11-02-2008 01:21 AM

[Dch48]

I run IE7 with no addons , pretty much default settings and only the pop up blocker turned on. I do not block ads at all, sometimes, they're actually more interesting than the page they're on  lol . I block all cookies except from selected sites.  I've been on the net since 1999, never using any browser but the latest version of IE and always using Outlook Express for my email. In that time, I have never been hacked or infected by any kind of virus or trojan. The only other security type program I use other than Norton is AdAware and I'm considering dumping that since it never finds anything at all. To me, most of this stuff I read about security and needing to have all these different apps and scan this and that is pure paranoia. It also is probably the reason why so many of the ones who do all those things are having to periodically reformat their drives. Something else which I have never done. They put so many different things on their systems that they inevitably get conflicts which they always seem to blame on either Microsoft or Symantec. In 99% of the cases, it's their own fault.  NIS is built to run with IE and MS Office. If you have problems, maybe it's because you're a little too paranoid and clutter your machines with needless junk.

[Dieselman743]

This forum has no really paranoia people or overlapping security users. If you want that then see this site. Look at reply #3326. Now that's over the top paranoia.

 http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=111264&page=134

[ProTruckDriver Super Spam Squasher]

I don't think Fort Knox has that much security as the one in reply #3326. lol

[Dieselman743]

Isn't that pathetic. What are people thinking. Why even turn your pc on. Gezzz.

[Tech0utsider]

Wonder what the security software can do once he physically loses his computer =D.

Geez and isnt Vista slow enough without all the extra crap. 

If you want security, don't own a computer. 

Message Edited by Tech0utsider on 11-02-2008 07:18 PM

[Dch48]

Wow, all of that and it says  Windows firewall lol .

I didn't mean anybody here by what i said, just the kind of people you see everywhere touting all that kind of stuff and saying Norton is no good and it's all Microsoft's fault when things go wrong.